The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-24


punches, while Elberon has been made to
look more dead-alive than it ever has APP
peared since Mr.. E. L. Brown first selected
the color of his houses and the title of his
town from bis own euphonious name.
The bookmakers at the Monmouth Park
race course have been practically ruined
by two curious characters who have ap-
peared there for the first time this season.
"Pittsburg Phil" by his tremendous
plungisg-actually putting 500 bill on
"short horse to win-has demoral.zed the
hurry and Phil Daily. THE Tip Terror"
of the Sun, who has proved the fact that
anybody who has followed the tips
gwen by the New York newspaper report
ers must inevitably have lost his
money, has scared away many of the fools
who followed newspaper advice and this
has also helped to ruffls the book makers,
who find lambs as scarce as they are in
Wall street. Tom Jolly, at Phil Daly's
Pennsylvania House, assured me, with as
straight face as he could put on, that
DAILY, as bookmsker, had lost $120 900 in
five days. He saw appeared incredulous,
and he added, nonchalantly: "Of course,
We MAKE up the losses here at night" If
the faro, roulette, rouge ct nor, dice and
other tables are idle, why, DAILY starts
game of hearts, and then John Pondir
comes in every night to play cribbage. l
felt, somehow, on hearing this that Days
would not close this season. As the book
makers at Monmouth Park are 26O in
number, pay $l75 each per day for the ses-
son-that is, tor twenty-eight days. ST. ,2S4,-
O0O-their failure and consequent retire
ment to poverty or "small cards would
positively be public calamity.
All Askury Park is the spot to see the
daisy bsthers. There are not more than
thirty woman to each man there, and
even old bald-heads get front seat. got
one myself last Sunday, and saw a sight to
behold, but hardly to be described. A
beautiful lily of New Jersey came all the
way from Long Branch to battle. bringing
her escort and his chaporone with her in
her own carriage. When she emerged
from her bathroom she was picture of
beauty and grace and good clothes. A
perfectly fitting black silk Jersey revealed
the ample proportions Of her bust; black
silk turban made her classic head all the
more shapely, and her limbs were encased
II tights of the same raven hue with gold
hid, a la soldier stripes down the sides.
She plunged boldly in the waves and
swan with matchless skill far beyond the
point to which her less daring swain
would follow. He returned to the shore
and stayed there, as he shivered and shud-
dered and jabberedin the coolish air, en-
treating her to return and directing his
man to bring package of life pre-
servers. At last, listening to his en-
treaties, the Beauty came ashore. The two
then gracefully reclined on the sand and
the man servant then approached With a
large silver scoop, not unlike the tin sugar
scoop of the ordinary grocery, except that
the bottom was perforated as a sieve. As
the Lily lay at full length the Dude. hall
lying, half reclining, springled dry sand
over her from her neck to her feet. 1t was
done most deliberately and carefully. II
was not laid on thick-to the depth,
should say, of not more tnan third of an
inch-certainly not enough to conceal the
magnificent proportions of her person.
He then covered himself in the same way,
and the two rested in their sun baths .fol
| probably q quarter of an hour, the whole
of Asbury Park meantime gathering in q
circle sixteen to twenty deep about them
in breathless admiration. One latecomel
"a cadaverous oil fellow, with long hair
q white choker and sanctimonious all
generally-elbowed his way through the
crowd, and. as he glanced at the sand
bathing beauty, ne raised his voice In mel
ody, saying, my eyes have seen the com
ing of the glory of the day." at which tn,
dude, thus rudely disturbed, rose, brushed
the sand carefully from every part of TIT
lady's person., and the two again plunged
into the ocean, while the crowd took ul
the parsons chorus.
Every one of the above stories is ful
Aedged fiction; but they are quite as tru
as most of the tales told from these water
ing places by inventive letter writer's 70
the Press. These writers go to these sum
mer resorts evidently under the impression
that they must approach the wicked q
near as possible without touching it, an
never tread near the truth at all. Serious
ly they do great deal of harm by their 81
lscious inventions-not only harm to tn
hotel keepers, but injury to morality itsel
! A false notion of life at the real restin
places of the people is given by their tale:
and many ignorant or young persons goin
there for the first time, think they must g
prepared to look upon fast life withou
J blHshing, and first beholding vice, learn |
pity, then embrace it. The false ideas
hotel lie. for instance, at Nsrraganse
, Pier and Long Branch, thus conveyed il
t cline elderly persons Of religious views
: crowd their daughters into such places
+ Martha's Vineyard and Asbury Par
where there is more religious reputatic
] than moral conduct, with the grave dra'
back of meaner and closer accommodation
than at the higher class places. At Il